"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.vwu617s0eav7ka@localhost.localdomain... > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:31:53 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer > <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:36:10 -0400, Robert Clipsham >> <rob...@octarineparrot.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Also, hate to be a grammar nazi, but that should probably be "I wrote >>> this article /about/ D, and all I got was this lousy!T shirt". >>> >> >> Considering this was a *writing* contest, it should probably be >> grammatically correct :) > > That reminds me, at my former company, we had a release of a BSD-based > appliance. The marketing department thought it would be clever to give us > all mugs that said \dev\mug. > > I had to change it to forward slashes with a sharpie, I just couldn't look > at it without that :) >
Heh :) I think good advice in general is "If you're going to do something, mind the details."
